The result was: front blinking blue led, rear left blue led, rear right led was mostly off. Never got the Lacie Ethernet/Network Agent to detect the drive. My router has not seen the Lacie either.

I tried with both SAFE 100 and BIG mode. The OFF switch did not seem to work, so I had to pull out the power plug.

When I reconnected the drives to my desktop, I noted one of them was untouched, the other one has partition table changed to match partition table below, but all the Linux raid autodetect (fd) partitons were changed to Linux (83) except for sda5 that was Linux Swap (82) partition.

The result was: front blue led on with intermittent red blinking (6 or so blinks every minute or so), rear left blue led mostly on, rear right led was mostly off. Never got the Lacie Ethernet/Network Agent to detect the drive. My router has not report the Lacie either.

Ok, I think I am good. I have booted parted magic with both drives connected to my desktop and cat /proc/partitions showed md1. After I mounted it, I removed the clock reference in bootmisc.i in etc/initng.

Seems to be working. Lacie Ethernat Agent found LaCie-2big.local with DHCP assigned IP and I was able to log in.

Loading I2C based RTC driver device interface.
Found TWSI-I2C with id: 0
No RTC found on the I2C bus

So I guess it's broken. A bit silly that the last services were marked to be dependent on the clock. On the other hand, why should you anticipate on hardware failure. On the third hand, nor the Networkspace neither the EdMini V2 seems to have a battery on the PCB. So what's the purpose of the rtc anyway?

Mijzelf wrote:On the third hand, nor the Networkspace neither the EdMini V2 seems to have a battery on the PCB. So what's the purpose of the rtc anyway?

Well, I have not seen any rtc battery on my 2big pcb either. The clock.i script could probably be written better, but the hwclock command that fails this script is part of busybox, so I did not have much time researching. I guess the fact that you can sync time with the Lacie Ethernet Agent running PC and you have the 2big box constantly powered (and running, even with drives powered down) makes sense for no rtc on the board.